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02:11.51Paul_UKhey room!
02:14.12z00daxwuzip
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10:18.00Ch0HagWhat yahoo porn chatbots?
10:19.07benoystwhaT ?
10:19.11benoysthahaha
10:19.28antiphaseringpieceteddy
10:26.09goibhniuall the ones that say "hi .. it's been such a long time since we've chatted ... why not visit my page and you can see me on my webcam ;) from girlygirl" etc
10:26.28Ch0HagWhy don't I get them?
10:26.30goibhniuthere seems to be a glut of them recently
10:30.22antiphaseI had a conversation with one of those once
10:30.57goibhniuhehe
10:31.25antiphasehttp://www.ossified.net/cyndi_4you.html
10:31.35antiphaseI had to save it because it was so unbelievable
10:32.43goibhniud00d ... that wasn't a bot ... or my mom is a monkey
10:34.16Ch0HagThat's certainly different.
10:34.19Ch0HagPorn!
10:34.22Ch0HagMaths first
10:34.28Ch0HagOK done, but then PORN.
10:35.51antiphaseShe forgot of course that for an indefinite integral there should be a constant of integration added to the result, but it was pretty good for a pron broker
10:36.23goibhniuher dad would have been proud
10:50.22wethrinantiphase: To be fair, many people conveniently forget the constant of integration
11:02.23Ch0HagWhat's anti-spam?
11:02.26Ch0HagSteak?
11:02.34wethrinSTEAK!
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11:04.37Ch0HagHow long does it take to boil bacon?
11:05.25antiphaseDepends how heavy it is
11:05.35haliboil bacon?!
11:05.45goibhniuyumm ... myco-spam
11:06.15wethrinBoil bacon!?
11:06.22wethrinOne fries, or grills bacon.
11:06.47antiphaseOnly if it's sliced
11:07.09antiphaseYou can boil big chunks of dead pig for making tasty sandwiches with mustard on
11:07.17wethrinHm, true.
11:07.47goibhniumy kind of car http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/knx/437261010.html
11:08.15wethrinnice description
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11:23.32Ch0HagEugh.
11:23.35Ch0HagNever cook pasta without salt.
11:23.48wethrinI've never had a problem with spaghetti cooked in unsalted water
11:23.59Ch0HagIt tastes of boring.
11:23.59antiphaseNever eat pasta without copious quantities of cheese
11:24.11Ch0HagIt has lots of cheese. That is its one saving grace.
11:24.13wethrinCh0Hag: Ahh. I make up for that with tasty SAUCE
11:24.13Ch0HagBlue cheese.
11:24.49Ch0HagAnd extra mature cheddar from Cornwall.
11:26.18Ch0HagThe bacon, btw, is Very Heavy.
11:26.34Ch0HagBut that's OK because it needs to feed 8 people.
11:27.36Leedssushi!
11:28.16wethrinFISH!
11:28.17Ch0HagYeah pigs might, uh, swim?
11:28.52Leedssushi and Top Gear! :-)
11:29.03wethrinThe African Special?
11:29.30Leedsyup
11:29.35wethrinThat's a good'un
11:30.30Leedsjust started it...
11:30.56wethrinI'm not going to spoiler it, then.
11:31.03wethrinJust saying that it's a good episode
11:31.56Ch0HagIf I press triangle (which runs xmms-pause) or run xmms-pause directly, xmms pauses (or unpauses if it's paused already)
11:32.16Ch0HagIf I press C-M-Home, fvwm runs xmms-pause and it starts the track at the begining.
11:33.23Ch0HagWhy?
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11:46.09Leedsmmm... soft, tender salmon...
11:53.22Leedsserious question... what does sushi go for in the UK nowadays?
11:53.53Leedse.g. for salmon sashimi
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12:09.30Ch0HagHey my question's serious!
12:19.52jcookemanI know here in London vendors adore their sushi
12:19.57jcookemandemand premium cash for it
12:20.21jcookemaneven the hookers demand premium payiouts
12:20.25jcookemanthis world is going to hell
12:28.55Leedsnice and affordable here
12:30.58Leedsobviously, I mean sushi... obviously.
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13:26.07boudiccasmonring
13:30.46z00daxmoin
13:38.44boudiccasz00dax; i started using that indian snuff that we talked about last night, its heavily scented with roses and its quite sweet too. totally different from the english ones that i'm currently using
13:39.38z00daxah cool.
13:40.02z00daxnot that i have any real idea about that sort of stuff
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13:42.45dick_turpingoibhniu: Oi
13:43.03zmey_gYo!
13:43.08goibhniuyoyo
13:43.24boudiccasdick_turpin; thanks for your email, i've just replied to it
13:43.52dick_turpingoibhniu: I think I've done something horrible to both the ArchLinux installs :-(
13:44.01goibhniuD:
13:44.15dick_turpinboudiccas: Thought you might like that, are you gonna flame him?
13:44.25boudiccasdick_turpin; if i seem stilted in my reply its because i misread which peter it was from and thought that it was from someone who i dislike. and it wasnt until i'd sent it that i relaised which peter it was from
13:44.34dick_turpingoibhniu: I still cant get GUI working on the main box
13:44.54goibhniudick_turpin: tarnations
13:45.11dick_turpingoibhniu: Updated the lappy last night and got loads of horrid warnings, I was too scared to restart it
13:45.50dick_turpingoibhniu: I might wipe the PC install of Arch and do a re-install
13:46.14goibhniudid you try nuking xorg.conf?
13:46.39dick_turpinboudiccas: Thats OK everyone hates me! Its good to know where you stand :-D
13:47.13dick_turpingoibhniu: Yeah, even hooked up a 17" CRT I have knocking around in the loft
13:47.38dick_turpingoibhniu: Thats because someone said it might be the KVM causing trouble
13:47.56goibhniuthat sucks
13:48.15goibhniuI learnt a couple of things recently
13:48.20goibhniuxrandr -q
13:48.30dick_turpingoibhniu: Mind you its like "Shit off a shovel" with no GUI ;-)
13:48.37goibhniushould tell you what monitors it thinks is plugged in
13:49.11boudiccashmmm
13:49.15goibhniucan you pop on later and try to debug it?
13:50.04dick_turpingoibhniu: hwd -xa should have worked but it failed
13:50.27goibhniuthat's an arch thing innit
13:50.42goibhniusnuff
13:50.44dick_turpingoibhniu: lol yep Voodoo to you
13:51.53goibhniuthat prolly dumps an xorg.conf on ya
13:52.52dick_turpingoibhniu: What I could do with is a feature that used (Might still be there?) to be on Debian, something-reconfigure
13:53.01Ch0HagMeh youth wasn't all it's cracked up to be.
13:53.18Ch0HagNow, a job and the income that comes with it, that's something to miss.
13:53.26dick_turpingoibhniu: Basically you could run the 'setup' again
13:53.50boudiccassnuff
13:53.55Ch0HagDoes anyone have a spare job they could give me?
13:53.59dick_turpinboudiccas: Huff
13:54.01goibhniudick_turpin: that also dumps an xorg.conf on yo ass
13:54.04LeedsCh0Hag: I've only got the one
13:54.06Ch0HagOr perhaps an agency with at least a sliver of decency wherein one might be found.
13:54.15boudiccaslol
13:54.28Ch0Hagboudiccas: Yeah, I know, I'm a comedian.
13:54.39dick_turpingoibhniu: I have xorg.conf file coming out my ears
13:54.50goibhniunuke it .. xrandr -q
13:55.11Ch0HagThe latest batch of agencies I've browsed don't even bother to spam me.
13:55.16dick_turpingoibhniu: Will have to wait till tonight
13:55.52goibhniudick_turpin: will you able to be online for it?
13:57.25dick_turpingoibhniu: sort of I can Alt+F2 for a normal user login the problem is if I do startx and it half works I'm stuck and have to reboot blind
13:58.27Ch0HagGet another machine and run sshd.
13:58.45dick_turpingoibhniu: I was thinking of enableing sshd that should let me login from the windows box which will not support X forwarding
13:59.01dick_turpinCh0Hag: Too late already there :-P
13:59.04Ch0HagIt can if you want it to.
13:59.08goibhniuas long as you have a shell you can do things
13:59.28goibhniuand if you're online we can use curse words
13:59.46dick_turpingoibhniu: Its really difficult to explain you have to see it to see what I'm saying
14:00.34dick_turpinIf X fails totally then I get dropped back to the shell with "Fail to connect" blah blah blah
14:00.50goibhniuthat's ok ... you can copy and paste from putty
14:01.02goibhniuall that stuff is logged
14:01.05dick_turpinIf it part works I'm left with a sort of tinted (Black) blank screen
14:02.09dick_turpinBut the strange thing is there must be a terminal behind the blank screen because I can type shutdown -r now and it works (Re-boot that is)
14:03.01boudiccasdick_turpin; have you tried ctrl+alt+backspace???
14:03.08zmey_gdick_turpin: you can type "killall xorg" than with much better effect
14:03.09dick_turpinCh0Hag: I ave two boxes on a KVM switch 1 Win XP the other Linux
14:03.18dick_turpinboudiccas: Yep no joy
14:03.49dick_turpinzmey_g: Aha! but dont I need a PID number for that?
14:03.55zmey_gno
14:04.03boudiccaswhat happens if you try restartx
14:04.23dick_turpinzmey_g: Right thats test number 3087 then
14:04.42dick_turpinboudiccas: Aaah Thats another new one on me
14:04.50boudiccasdick_turpin; what happens if you try restartx
14:05.20dick_turpinboudiccas: I just told you, Doh!
14:05.42zmey_gdick_turpin: i had lots of troubles with my xorg, "killall xorg" from sshd worked for me
14:06.33dick_turpinzmey_g: Ah so does that work directly? e.g. on the actual box or is it an ssh associated command?
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14:07.40zmey_git works both ways
14:08.26dick_turpinzmey_g: Ah good will try that if I get snotted up again
14:09.15zmey_gjust type # killall xorg   from shell or sshd shell and it should clear the screen and through you back to the prompt
14:11.29dick_turpingoibhniu: I'll be back on around 7.00pm ish is that any good to you?
14:11.45goibhniusuperb!
14:12.22dick_turpingoibhniu: I have with me now the openSUSE 3.1 xorg.conf is it worth you looking at that?
14:13.05goibhniuif it works on the same box ... it will be handy for reference
14:13.31dick_turpingoibhniu: Right hows this 'paste bin' voodo work?
14:13.48zmey_gdick_turpin: check Xorg.0.log I had problems with fonts, drivers and section Monitor HorizSync and refresh options. all of these might kill X
14:14.10goibhniudick_turpin: go to your favourite paste bin ... e.g. http://rafb.net/paste/
14:14.40goibhniupaste what you want into the box ... hit the button .. then paste the url into the interweb chat
14:14.44dick_turpingoibhniu: Stuff that I'll mail it, I've had enough of complicated
14:14.57goibhniudick_turpin: it's leet
14:15.13goibhniubut mail works too
14:15.19antiphasekillall init
14:15.26wethrininnit!
14:15.32zmey_gantiphase: :)
14:15.46dick_turpinI tried innit 3 but that failed :-(
14:17.26boudiccasdick_turpin; sounds like the instllation is borked!!! :(
14:17.48dick_turpingoibhniu: Just emailed it to you as an attachment
14:18.36antiphase`telinit 3` as root might be more helpful if yu want to change runlevel
14:19.00dick_turpinboudiccas: Yeah that was my thoughts I reckon I missed something while installing X
14:19.14goibhniudick_turpin: lovely ... at 7 it's going into pastebin for everyone join in the fun
14:19.46dick_turpinantiphase: As I said earlier all I want is to get back to a terminal if startx only partly works
14:20.38dick_turpingoibhniu: See that xorg works fine on the same machine but with the SUSE drive attached
14:20.49antiphaseCtrl-Alt-F1
14:21.25dick_turpinantiphase: What will that do? (I don't know)
14:22.08antiphaseSwitch to the first tty, usually
14:22.26antiphaseCtrl-Alt-F7 will often take you back into X, depending on how your system is set up
14:22.36dick_turpinIf I do startx while on F1 and I try Alt+F2 I get another display but cant see it
14:22.39antiphase(or even Alt-F7 in a tty)
14:23.26antiphaseThat probably means your helpful distro people only bound one tty. Nothing to stop you doing Ctrl-Alt-F1 and pressing ^C or ^Z to stop X
14:24.02antiphaseIt's quite funny when people leave tty1 logged in and you can bounce their machine out of X, alter their .bash_profile then switch back to X
14:24.22antiphaseOption DontVTSwitch 4tw
14:24.45dick_turpinantiphase: Hm OK, I'll leave it there as we will talk in circles for hours because the machine is at home
14:24.45Ch0Hagwtf?
14:24.49Ch0HagThat sounds like an evil option.
14:24.56antiphaseNothing like black text on a black terminal to keep the n00bs guessing on a Monday morning
14:25.23Ch0Hagstartx&exit hardly takes effort.
14:25.30dick_turpinThe big "Stop dick_turpin going blind" event is at about 7 pm ish tonight
14:25.45jcookemanantiphase: you're evil!!
14:26.06dick_turpinantiphase: You're a very cruel man with an evil sense of humour
14:26.19antiphaseWelcome to my world, suckas
14:28.41zmey_gkillall antiphase
14:28.48dick_turpinboudiccas: Lol got your reply, as you say very stilted, was you frightened that I might charge by the word?
14:30.06goibhniu30667 ?        Z     0:00 antiphase
14:30.26wethrinBRANES?
14:36.21boudiccasdick_turpin; did you see my pm ???
14:37.15dick_turpinOops one sec trying to sell something
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15:53.12niv_one_threeI am considering AGAIN wether to go back to Uni and really get my degree this time
15:53.28niv_one_threespent four years - and didnt get past second year
15:53.37jcmlUKwouldn't bother.  full of fucking students.
15:53.45niv_one_threewondering if it is actually worth it
15:54.32niv_one_threehow much of my life time - should I "spend" on getting an Eng dgree? 7? 8? hmm...
15:54.47jcmlUKdoubt it's worth it.  unless you're in a job that sucks wang and can't get out without a meaningless bit of paper.
15:54.52niv_one_threewhile getting work now - is not such a big problem...
15:55.36niv_one_threeI am already  well in to advanced linux administration
15:55.47niv_one_threeas well as some scripting ,
15:56.01jcmlUKyeah, but is that your job?
15:56.41niv_one_threewell, my original craft is Electronics, and R&D in it
15:57.25niv_one_threebut it is hard to work in R&D with no piece of paper
15:57.47niv_one_threeyet I allready "lost" enoutgh time ..
15:58.28niv_one_threejcmlUK, thanks
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16:00.02jcmlUKniv_one_three: np
16:00.31jcmlUKit was a real waste of 3 years of my life, and I can't recommend it full time to anyone :)
16:02.41antiphaseI quite enjoyed getting wasted and not doing much for 3 years
16:02.53antiphaseI've almost paid it off 5 years after I left as well :O
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16:28.44niv_one_threedid you all study CS?
16:29.12wethrinNo
16:29.17wethrinWell, I did for one year
16:30.21zmey_gguys, shall i wait for half an hour before resync finish creating RAID1 when installing debian , or can i carry on with system install?  
16:30.44wethrinIt should DTRT if you just carry on and do it
16:30.54wethrinIf you want to feel safe and secure, though, you may as well wait
16:31.40zmey_gwethrin: last time i tried without waiting and fail to install grub
16:32.25zmey_gso i might wait as no clear explanation in my howto
16:34.59niv_one_threewethrin: so - would you advice a normal human to invest yet four more years to earn a mechanical eng. degree these days?
16:35.24wethrinYes, if you want to do mechanical eng. from a more theoretical point of view
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16:46.21niv_one_threetime to go home
16:46.25niv_one_threebye for now
16:55.30wethrin~coffee
16:56.36wethrinbah, ibot's rubbish
17:00.45goibhniuxteddy: get wethrin coffee
17:00.46xteddy:)
17:01.20wethrinhum. xteddy grins inanely, but isn't any use
17:02.07goibhniuutilitarianist!
17:05.05wethrinibot: OI
17:05.06ibotI have a name you know.
17:05.10wethrinheh
17:05.32wethrinibot: coffee
17:07.47wethrinibot smells of poo and wee
17:08.01jcookemanibot suck me
17:08.02ibotACTION sucks jcookeman's cheek
17:08.08wethrin:)
17:08.53wethrinibot insult xteddy
17:08.57xteddy:)
17:09.21goibhniuxteddy stand up for yourself!
17:09.24wethrinibot insult xteddy
17:24.00antiphaseI have difficulty articulating quite how much irrational hatred I have for xteddy
17:25.32wethrinantiphase: Yes - there's something about it, isn't there?
17:25.43wethrinMaybe it's because it's not bitter
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17:27.22goibhniuI think he's dead
17:28.13boudiccasdo you want me to lay him out and perform last offices on xteddy???
17:28.46goibhniuare you going to cut open his belly?
17:28.56wethrinDig out the perl innards
17:29.42goibhniuif it wasn't perl maybe we could use it for something else
17:29.58goibhniusomething eeevil
17:30.13boudiccaseverything stops for tea!!! :)
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18:56.11dick_turpingoibhniu: Oi
18:56.39goibhniueyup
18:56.41boudiccasdick_turpin; welcome back :)
18:56.53goibhniuoh boudiccas ... you're back!
18:56.57boudiccasand just to be fair, welcome front :)
18:57.03dick_turpinOK so I'm on the broken Arch
18:57.06boudiccasyes, it was tea time goibhniu
18:57.35dick_turpingoibhniu: Euw thoughts of perl necklaces
18:57.52boudiccasdick_turpin; what happens if you type in restartx
18:58.03dick_turpinxrandr -q failed
18:58.14goibhniuwhat did it say?
18:58.25dick_turpinboudiccas: Will try that in a sec
18:58.32dick_turpin1 sec
18:58.58goibhniuis arch booted ... and at the other end of putty?
18:59.01dick_turpingoibhniu: Can't open display
18:59.21dick_turpingoibhniu: No I'm on it now
18:59.49dick_turpinI mean yes its booted, no not on putty actually on the box
19:00.22boudiccasdick_turpin; ??? restartx ???
19:00.29goibhniudick_turpin: 's suse xorg.conf http://rafb.net/p/ijqulj16.html
19:01.01dick_turpinboudiccas: Right will give that a go but I may disapear for 3-4 minutes
19:01.12dick_turpinReady?
19:01.49goibhniuif that doesn't work ... ps axf | grep X
19:01.54dick_turpinboudiccas: ROTFLMAO "Command not found"
19:02.14dick_turpingoibhniu: 1 sec then
19:02.20goibhniuwhat state are we in now?
19:02.26goibhniuscreen has no signal?
19:03.08dick_turpingoibhniu: innit 3 I believe its the default for Arch
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19:04.03goibhniuok but what is happening?
19:04.22goibhniuyou have a terminal ... you can log in etc?
19:04.27goibhniuno X?
19:04.33goibhniunothing on the screen?
19:04.44dick_turpinum how the bleedin hell do I get the text from F1 to F2?
19:05.24goibhniuI don't think that's gonna work
19:05.39goibhniuif it's an error we should be able to find it in the logs
19:05.59goibhniudick_turpin: where are you ... what are you seeing?
19:06.47dick_turpinroot F1 me (test) F2 grep shows tty1 through to 6
19:07.28goibhniuok ... so you're at the arch box proper .. not ssh
19:07.42goibhniuyou can switch between tty1 - 6
19:07.44goibhniucorrect?
19:07.56goibhniualt+F7 ... black?
19:08.07dick_turpin1 sec
19:08.18dick_turpinYes
19:08.43goibhniuok ... but you can get back to tty1
19:08.57goibhniuyou are logged in at tty1?
19:09.10goibhniuwhen you run `startx`
19:09.20goibhniuwhat happens?
19:09.28dick_turpinAha I understand, yes on F2 now (irssi) root is on F1
19:09.43goibhniuah ... on irrsi and all :)
19:09.49goibhniuwho needs X anyway
19:10.11goibhniubut yes ... getting a look at the logs may be fun
19:10.12dick_turpingoibhniu: Minimal configuration enough to get me here #gllug
19:10.29goibhniuok give startx a shot
19:10.39goibhniuon tty1
19:10.56goibhniutty1 = F1
19:10.59dick_turpingoibhniu: Right that will kill me so I may be gone for a couple of mins
19:11.05goibhniureally?
19:11.13dick_turpinReady?
19:11.16goibhniucan't you get back to irssi?
19:11.18goibhniuno one sec
19:11.29goibhniuhow about ssh from the windows box?
19:11.39goibhniuwe'll need to have a look at some logs etc
19:11.58goibhniuwhat may happen is that startx will fire up x
19:12.07goibhniubut your monitor will freak out and give up
19:12.18dick_turpinFailed to initialize3 core devices error 3
19:12.20goibhniubut you should still be able to get back to tty2
19:12.26goibhniunice
19:12.31goibhniuyou're still here
19:12.46goibhniuwhat happened?
19:13.00dick_turpinyes but if I do start gdm that will blank me out
19:13.55goibhniuhave you got /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?
19:14.07dick_turpin1 sec
19:14.09goibhniuif so, please move it out of the way for a minute
19:14.56goibhniupacman -S xf86-video-vesa
19:15.00goibhniumake sure you've got that one
19:15.10dick_turpinright, startx I take it?
19:15.28goibhniuif you've got the vesa thing ... startx yep
19:15.53goibhniuif we're lucky you get a grey screen and an x pointer
19:16.49dick_turpinright it fell over with loads of module failures
19:16.52goibhniunice
19:16.57goibhniuany clues?
19:18.18dick_turpinhm its telling me modules do not exist such as KB, Mouse ect
19:18.25goibhniuexcellent
19:18.46goibhniupacman -S xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard
19:19.36dick_turpinpacman -S xf86 should get the lot
19:19.55goibhniudid you run that command?
19:20.48dick_turpinno 1 sec
19:23.04dick_turpinNow the bloody downloads are failing
19:23.17goibhniuhot dang
19:23.27goibhniubut that's good news
19:23.35goibhniuthat means you didn't have them
19:24.11goibhniumaybe you can flick to another repo
19:24.21dick_turpinno obviuosly not
19:24.59dick_turpintryin g to figure that out now you'll have to bare with me flipping from tty2 to tty1
19:25.21goibhniuno probs
19:25.29goibhniuI can offer some repos to you
19:25.43goibhniumaybe you can grab them from irssi logs?
19:25.53goibhniuto get from tty2 to tty1?
19:26.31goibhniuServer = ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686
19:27.07kjalilright
19:27.21goibhniuServer = ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/x86_64
19:27.28goibhniusorry for 64 bit
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19:30.35dick_turpingoibhniu: I'm in a right mess now brain is whizzing, this Arch is an i386 install I believe
19:30.58dick_turpinpacman is refusing to work
19:31.00goibhniuuname -m
19:31.17dick_turpini686
19:31.33goibhniuhmm .. what's up with pacman?
19:32.20dick_turpinextra is refusing to give me the files even from the bloody USA
19:32.54goibhniuhow about http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/x86_64
19:33.06goibhniuwell the german site is workin
19:33.51dick_turpinright 1 sec
19:34.43goibhniuyou just need two packages .. does it help if I put them on ftp?
19:35.28dick_turpinno mate, Im getting a bit angry now, 1 sec
19:37.44dick_turpinDoh doh bloody doh! pacman -Sy 1st then pacman -S whatever
19:38.11dick_turpingoibhniu: Right got em
19:38.37goibhniustar bars!
19:40.44dick_turpinnope
19:41.20goibhniuok, what's up?
19:41.52dick_turpinlooks pretty much the same message
19:42.13goibhniubut it did install those packages?
19:42.37dick_turpinyeah, mate shall we give up and I'll do a fresh install?
19:42.46goibhniuI don't think so
19:42.55goibhniuhow about ssh from the other pc?
19:43.06goibhniuI'd like a look at the logs
19:43.17dick_turpinhm, hang on
19:43.38goibhniuor do you want to give me r00t?
19:44.16dick_turpinis it opensshd for the server?
19:44.26goibhniusounds right
19:44.53dick_turpinright give me a min installing openssh now will get sshd in a sec
19:45.29goibhniusuper
19:45.31dick_turpinI'd love to let you in but I'd have to log into the router and set up a rule for you
19:45.51goibhniuah yeah
19:48.32dick_turpinfiring up the windows box
19:53.09dick_turpingoibhniu: going to log out of irssi here and log back in from windows (hopefully)
19:53.19goibhniuace
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19:56.53goibhniuwahey!
19:57.08dick_turpinooh graphics this XP is pretty good ;-)
19:57.21goibhniuheh
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19:58.36goibhniudick_turpin: can you pastebin Xorg.0.log?
19:58.38dick_turpinhm cant log in connection refused
19:58.49goibhniuoh ..hmm
19:58.58goibhniudid you start it?
19:59.15dick_turpinhang on need to find out how I can see if sshd is running
19:59.20goibhniuI assumed you were logging in through arch
19:59.31goibhniuprolly /etc/init.d/sshd start
20:01.22dick_turpinno its running had a look via htop
20:02.14goibhniuso you can't log in to the box with ssh?
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20:02.17goibhniuhmm
20:02.39dick_turpinNo server refused connection, could it be my router?
20:02.54goibhniucould be your windows firewall??
20:03.39goibhniuI doubt your router would do anything fancy .. dunno though really
20:04.06dick_turpinhang on perhaps I have to configure a file
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20:06.45goibhniuyou could paste the logs into a paste bin from arch .. but the only way I can think is with screen
20:07.59dick_turpinmepis live cd runs fine GUI (Typical) I can reboot with that but time is running out I have about 50 minutes left
20:08.34goibhniuhmm .. I dunno .. that shoudl work though
20:08.41goibhniugo for mepis I think
20:09.01boudiccasmepis is a good live distro
20:09.46dick_turpin1 sec then have to make a brew while that is happening
20:11.16goibhniugood idea
20:11.42boudiccasyes please dick_turpin
20:11.59boudiccasmine is a g&t please
20:12.07dick_turpinNo sugar for everyone?
20:12.29boudiccasdick_turpin; so, are you going to use mepis as your desktop in place of arch linux???
20:12.51dick_turpinboudiccas: No! go and stand in the coner
20:13.18boudiccasah, is this all prt of your plan to get back into an arch setup with a gui???
20:13.28boudiccas* part
20:13.37dick_turpinyes, nearly there
20:13.43boudiccasah right
20:14.18dick_turpingoibhniu: pastebin url?
20:14.40goibhniuhttp://rafb.net/paste
20:15.08goibhniuibot: pastebin
20:15.09ibotfrom memory, pastebin is a place to paste your stuff without flooding the channel - try  http://pastebin.ca, or http://channels.debian.net/paste, or http://rafb.net/paste/, or http://pastebin.com is usually painfully too slow and unresponsive to use, use one of the other pastebin sites, or dpaste.com is a very nice pastebin as well
20:15.09boudiccasah shit, i've just OD'd on snuff and its burning my nostrils!!!! :((((
20:15.31dick_turpin1 sec
20:18.35dick_turpingoibhniu: done dick_turpin
20:19.18goibhniugreat http://rafb.net/p/T6q3OV48.html
20:20.31boudiccasshould line 15 be like that???
20:21.02goibhniuwell .. it's still complaining it has no drivers for the kbd or mouse
20:22.11dick_turpingoibhniu: I reckon we should admit defeat and start agian? He who runs away lives to a ripe old age
20:22.36goibhniugo for it ... it will take 20 mins anyway :D
20:23.09goibhniuI don't think it will change anything myself
20:23.18dick_turpingoibhniu: Na we'll leave it for tomorow night the gaffer is getting techy
20:23.38goibhniudo you want to try one more thing?
20:23.47dick_turpingo on
20:23.52goibhniuhey .. actually have you rebooted it?
20:23.57dick_turpinno
20:24.10goibhniuwell I was just going to say to try installing a rake of things
20:24.17dick_turpingo on
20:24.19goibhniuand killing x
20:24.48dick_turpinlets shut down mepis then
20:25.20goibhniupacman -S xorg-server xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-video-vesa xorg-xinit nvidia-xconfig
20:25.23goibhniuno 1 sec
20:25.34goibhniuyou'll need to drop it in ssh
20:26.01dick_turpintoo late rebooting now
20:26.36goibhniuoh .. I thought you were gonna use mepis instead of windows
20:26.54goibhniudid mepis boot up ok?
20:28.10dick_turpinmepis yes, still no kb or mouse (drivers
20:28.15goibhniuhmm .. did you boot up mepis on the box and paste the log?
20:28.21dick_turpinyes
20:28.24goibhniuah
20:28.49dick_turpinmounted /dev/sda3
20:29.14goibhniuok then
20:29.14dick_turpincd /var/log yadda yadda yadda
20:29.33goibhniuhow about pacman -S nvidia-xconfig
20:29.39goibhniuor is it game over?
20:30.32dick_turpinrotflmao xorg-server currently installing
20:30.43goibhniu!?
20:30.50goibhniuthat would be handy :)
20:31.07goibhniumaybe it's updating?
20:31.42dick_turpinweird usually it say "already installed, overwrite y/n"
20:32.19goibhniuiirc when I installed arch I just installed something like firefox and it grabbed everything it needed
20:32.48goibhniuwhen it's up and running you have to do it again :)
20:33.08goibhniuto change it to 64bit heh
20:33.24boudiccasdick_turpin; document it in your blog, just in case you need to redo it in the future
20:33.52dick_turpinhm not complaing about kb and mouse, still failing, other bits missing
20:34.05goibhniupacman -S xorg-server xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-keyboard xf86-video-vesa xorg-xinit nvidia-xconfig
20:35.26goibhniuI wonder if it fails to install something does it just skip it?
20:35.37goibhniuthat would be rather confusing
20:36.10dick_turpinaha so we now have the black screen syndrome
20:36.28goibhniuthat sound like a step up
20:36.41goibhniuis that courtesy of nvidia I wonder
20:37.11dick_turpinnot really killall xorg failed screen still blank
20:37.33goibhniuctl-alt-backspace ?
20:37.45goibhniuwhere are you tty1?
20:37.51dick_turpinnow that worked, it didn't before
20:38.00dick_turpinyes tty1
20:38.09boudiccasso, are you now at a terminal window
20:38.14goibhniuah ... but you were in a blank screen on tty7?
20:38.35goibhniudid you get to the blank screen by running startx from tty1?
20:38.40dick_turpindunno lets test again
20:39.55goibhniu... 24 mins
20:40.13goibhniuand?
20:40.16dick_turpinhm its sort of locked up
20:40.38goibhniuctrl+alt+F1 ?
20:40.58goibhniudang ... I'll be that's nvidia
20:41.06goibhnius/be/bet/
20:41.52dick_turpinalt F7 produces a beep warning and nothing else
20:42.17dick_turpinremove nvidia?
20:42.29goibhniuhmm .. ctrl+alt+F1 does nothgin?
20:42.37dick_turpinhang on
20:42.48goibhniuyou need ctrl from tty7
20:43.26dick_turpinwell that gets the text back but its in a tizzy fit
20:43.35goibhniuthat's good
20:43.48goibhniuhow about tty2?
20:43.59goibhniuit sounds like x is running
20:44.17goibhniuotherwise it'd slap you out of there
20:45.07goibhniuI'd try xrandr -q from tty2 now
20:45.10dick_turpinmate wife is getting really humpy will have to look at this tomorrow, thanks for tonight
20:45.15goibhniuokie
20:45.20goibhniunight night
20:45.41dick_turpinI'm gonna wipe the Fecking thing
20:45.45goibhniuheh
20:45.51goibhniunuke it
20:46.03dick_turpinYeah with a bloody big magnet
20:46.25goibhniuit was probably a ghost that gutsy left on the hd
20:46.28dick_turpinttfn all
20:46.42goibhniulater dood
20:46.48dick_turpingoibhniu: Rotflmao
20:46.48boudiccasnn dick_turpin
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